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0. W. SALADE'E.

SLIDING-BOLTS Fon WINDOW-SASH, m.

Patented Feb. 8, 1876 WITNESSES:

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 73.181, dated February 8, 1876; application filed December 13, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LOYRUS W. SALADEE, of Washington, in the Districtof Oolum bia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sliding Bolts, of which the following is a specification:

My object is to produce a neat and durable sliding-bolt fastening, applicableto windowsash and general purposes, where a bolt of any description can be used; the design being to so arrange thebolt andit's operating-lever up-. on theouter face of a base-plate as to render its construction convenient and cheap, and

bring all the parts in frontupon the plate, so

that the latter can be applied Without requiring any special adaptation to render it conven ient to operate the lever. To this end the lever or crank is provided with a boss-exten sion, which, while forming a broad bearing upon the plate, serves to bring the lever out therefrom, to allow it to pass over the bolt to bring it in front.

I'am aware is not new; but in such device both the bolt and the lever have been arranged within a case, and are not so well adapted for general use as my plan which presents the arrangement for operation upon the outer face of the plate, and'requires only the attachment of the plate to render it complete and applicable for general use. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a face view of a sliding-bolt fastening embracing m y-invention Fig. 2, an edge view of the same; Fig. 3, an edge view of the lever with its boss-bearingextension; and Figs, 4, 5, and .6, the bolt. I

Upon the outer side of the face-plate A I arrange the sliding bolt B, its guide-loops O,

upon the boss-extension H, beneath the lever or crank D, as shownin Fig. 1, in which case both the thumb-lever and the bolt-lever project from the same boss-bearing.-

The lever or crank has a knob-handle, F, and is operated'to move the bolt in and out of the fastening-socket. I claim- A sliding bolt operated bya swinging lever The swinging lover or crank D, ha vingthe pivotal boss-bearing H,- and suitably connect ed to the sliding bolt B, at a point between the fulcrum and the crank-handle, together with the guide-loops G O, all'arranged upon the outer surface of the base-plate A, in the manner and for'the shown anddescribe I CYRUS W. SALADEE. Witnesses:

HERM. LAIITEN, ABBY O. SALADEE.

purpose substantially as, 

